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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Sources: more than half of the state attorneys general in the US are preparing an antitrust investigation into Google, scheduled to be announced on September 9 — More than half of the nation's state attorneys generals are preparing to announce an antitrust investigation into Google next week.
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Android 10 launches today, with the update available to all Pixel phones — After six betas over six months, the newest version of Android is finally out. — Android 10 is finally finished! The next big Android update, which we've been examining for most of the year as the “Android Q Beta,” starts rolling out to devices today.
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| Ravie Lakshmanan / The Next Web: |
Report: scammers used commercially available voice-generating AI software to impersonate a German company's boss, tricking a manager into transferring $243K — It's already getting tough to discern real text from fake, genuine video from deepfake. Now, it appears that use of fake voice tech is on the rise too.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Firefox 69 arrives and now blocks third-party tracking cookies, fingerprinting, and cryptomining by default — Mozilla today launched Firefox 69 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Firefox 69 blocks third-party tracking cookies and cryptomining by default.
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| Facebook: |
Facebook says its facial recognition tech will no longer identify new users in their photos by default; all users can now opt out via a Face Recognition setting — Facebook has always given you control over whether we use face recognition technology to recognize you in photos.
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Flaws found in Supermicro motherboards could let hackers remotely mount virtual USB drives; patch issued, but 47,000+ potentially exposed devices found online — A newly disclosed vulnerability in Supermicro hardware brings the threat of malicious USBs to corporate servers.
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| YouTube Blog: |
YouTube has removed 100K+ videos and 17K channels for hate speech, ~5x more than in Q1, since implementing changes to its hateful content policies in June — Over the past several years, we've redoubled our efforts to live up to our responsibility while preserving the power of an open platform.
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| Sohee Kim / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Samsung plans to unveil a 6.7-inch phone, which will shrink to a pocketable square when folded inward like a clamshell, early next year — - Coming in 2020, it will close inward like a classic flip phone — Collaboration with designer Thom Browne to push luxury appeal
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
SoftBank is $600M+ underwater on its early-2018 Uber investment as the stock hits an all-time low; because of a CFIUS review, it may not get board seats — KEY POINTS — SoftBank backed Uber in early 2018, buying shares from existing investors for $48.77 a piece and purchasing new shares at just under $33.
Tweets: @mattrosoff and @dee_bosa
| Nicolas Vega / New York Post: |
Sources: Amazon is testing a biometric payment system that identifies and charges users by scanning their hand, with first Whole Foods deployments by next year — Forget the titanium Apple Card — Amazon's latest payment method uses flesh and blood. — The e-tailing giant's engineers … | Tami Abdollah / Associated Press: |
Facebook says DHS policy that allows agents to create fake profiles to monitor foreigners are against company's rules requiring use of real names for accounts — WASHINGTON (AP) — Facebook said Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security would be violating the company's rules …
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Tweets: @justinhendrix, @katunews, @inquirerdotnet, @latams, and @simonwdc
| Raymond Zhong / New York Times: |
Huawei says, without evidence, that the US targeted its networks with cyberattacks, and that FBI agents have pressed Huawei staffers at home for info on Huawei — BEIJING — The Chinese technology giant Huawei said on Tuesday, without providing evidence, that the United States government … | Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
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